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It's kind of funny that the related articles include another one with a completely different thesis: Has universal ageing mechanism been found? A protei
by pg 18y ago
It's kind of funny that the related articles include another one with a completely different thesis:
Has universal ageing mechanism been found?
A protein that causes yeast to age seems to have
a similar effect in mice too – the finding might
lead to drugs to reverse age-related diseases"
- bd 18y agoIt's actually complementary, aging has many factors. Heavy water is supposed to make harder for free radicals to do damage in the first place. Sirtuins should help with switching on repair mechanisms after damage is done. And then there are telomeres, our natural kill-switch. There is another article, linked from the sirtuins one, about a possible way to slow down telomeres shortening: http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn16035-elixir-of-youth-drug-could-fight-hiv-and-ageing.html http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn16035-elixir-of-youth-... BTW All three anti-aging approaches have companies working on the products to commercialize the research (Sirtris was recently bought by GlaxoSmithKline for $720M).
- kajecounterhack 18y agoWasn't there also some article about how people don't get dumber as they get older, rather, their focus is less and less? Sort of strange, but if that and all of this really turn out to be true, extending the human lifespan might not be as difficult as we make it out to be.
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